Overview
- Provides a complete biographical and intellectual overview of Theodor W. Adorno
- Offers a groundbreaking work by a leading Italian political philosopher to an English language audience for the first time
- Of interest to philosophers, social theorists, intellectual and cultural historians and scholars of cultural studies
Part of the book series: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms (MAENMA)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Philosophy
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book is a complete presentation of the most important themes of Theodor W. Adorno’s critical theory, and of its relevance for the understanding of the modern society. After an Introduction, which traces Adorno’s biographical and intellectual profile, the book is structured in three parts. The first is devoted to theoretical philosophy, and in particular to the concepts of philosophy, negative dialectics and metaphysics, and his aim is to clarify the Adornian understanding of such difficult concepts. The second is devoted to the main themes of Adorno’s social theory: the concept of domination, the relationship with Marxism, the theory of the decay of the individual, the critique of mass manipulation. The third part is devoted to aesthetics and culture criticism, and entails a conclusion in which the author outlines a confrontation between the Adornian and the Habermasian critique of modernity.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Stefano Petrucciani is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy. His books include: Introduzione a Habermas, (2000), Modelli di filosofia politica (2003), Introduzione a Adorno (2007), Democrazia (2014), Storia del marxismo (2015), Marx critique du libéralisme (2018), Politica. Una introduzione filosofica (2020), and The Ideas of Karl Marx (2020).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Theodor W. Adorno's Philosophy, Society, and Aesthetics
Authors: Stefano Petrucciani
Series Title: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71991-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71990-6Published: 23 April 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71993-7Published: 23 April 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-71991-3Published: 22 April 2021
Series ISSN: 2524-7123
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7131
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 167
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Political History